LCC Photography Research Show This research hub based at London College of Communication (LCC) brings together practitioners and theorists to explore and promote photography as a mode of imaginary thought and its relation to a collective imaginary. Specifically, we are interested in the increasingly complex research methodologies that underpin fine art photo […]

Graphic Design as Political Practice: A Conversation With Metahaven [Part 1] Published on February 14th, 2013 From: http://hyperallergic.com/ Written by: Kyle Chayka Installation view of “Metahaven: Islands in the Cloud” at MoMA PS1 (Photo: Matthew Septimus) Metahaven is an Amsterdam-based design studio made up of its two members and founders, Vinca Kruk and […]

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner can carry about 250 passengers. This blog was viewed about 850 times in 2012. If it were a Dreamliner, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see […]

Journal of Writing in Creative Practice From Wish You Were Here? to GAMSWEN and onto Designed Dissertations: Connecting the design studio with writing in design Author: Mark Ingham /// /// This review describes the evolution of three art and design ‘writing’ projects delivered during the contextual studies courses of the undergraduate Graphic and Digital D […]

Roger Martin from: http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=11097 Design thinking, as a concept, has been slowly evolving and coalescing over the past decade. One popular definition is that design thinking means thinking as a designer would, which is about as circular as a definition can be. More concretely, Tim Brown of IDEO has written that d […]

Cover of I Heart Design, edited by Steven Heller and published by Rockport (2011) From: http://observersroom.designobserver.com/oblog/entry.html?entry=24188 Certificate of Approval My father acquired this print (and several more like it) in a collection he bought from the estate of a friend in France: a certificate of approval for a pharmaceutical product, c […]

LCC Photography Research Show This research hub based at London College of Communication (LCC) brings together practitioners and theorists to explore and promote photography as a mode of imaginary thought and its relation to a collective imaginary. Specifically, we are interested in the increasingly complex research methodologies that underpin fine art photo […]

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Now online: the historic Chomsky-Foucault debate. By Tamara van der Putten On May 8, 2013 Excerpts from the Foucault-Chomsky debate on human nature and power have circulated online for years — now it’s available in full for the first time. In 1971, with the Vietnam war in full swing and radical social movements destabilizing the …Read More

William Faulkner “Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” /// John …Read More

The 12 Paradoxes Of Graphic Design By Dorothy Tan, 19 Mar 2013 Based on a lecture by graphic designer Adrian Shaughnessy, Stockholm-based designer Tobias Bergdahl has created minimalist visuals for the “12 Paradoxes of Graphic Design” that Shaughnessy spoke of. Each paradox consists of an impossible shape—like the Möbius strip—accompanied by a simple stateme […]

New Aesthetics: Cyber-Aesthetics and Degrees of Autonomy By Patrick Lichty – 01/03/2013 Five Thousand Feet is the Best by Omer Fast. In perusing Honor Harger’s recent missive on drone aesthetics and James Bridle’s ongoing posts of drone images at Dronestagram, taken in context with the Glitch un-conference in Chicago, some new questions have come to …Read Mo […]

Formal Design Education Is Necessary for Practicing Designers. Yay or Nay? Ellen Shapiro Scott Stowell It was the third Designer’s Debate Club event. The Parsons Tishman Auditorium on West 12th Street was packed last Wednesday with people eager to hear what well-known designers and design educators would have to say about the necessity of formal …Read More […]

Graphic Design as Political Practice: A Conversation With Metahaven [Part 1] Published on February 14th, 2013 From: http://hyperallergic.com/ Written by: Kyle Chayka Installation view of “Metahaven: Islands in the Cloud” at MoMA PS1 (Photo: Matthew Septimus) Metahaven is an Amsterdam-based design studio made up of its two members and founders, Vinca Kruk and […]

blockquote> Ten public lectures on philosophy, politics and the arts Dates: 31 January 2013 until 30 May 2013 Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy and The London Graduate School in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central Saint Martins: The lectures are free: arrive in good time to ensure a seat. Thursdays, 18.00–20.00 Central …Read M […]